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Official report made by Pierre-Joseph Neyon de Villier, on the visit of Indian messengers to Fort Chartres

1763, November 8 OFFICIAL REPORT MADE BY PIERRE-JOSEPH NEYON DE VILLIERS, ON THE VISIT OF INDIAN MESSENGERS TO FORT CHARTRES. DS. 5pp. French. Richmond. Great Chief Wolf and two warriors, messengers from the Iroquois, Wolves, and Shawnees, left Fort Duquesne (now called Fort Pitt by the British) on the 2nd of October and arrived at Fort Chartres on the 2nd of November. They brought with them twenty British scalps. In the presence of MM. Bobe [Jean-Baptiste-Claude Bobe Desclosseaux], commissioner, [Etienne Marafret] Laysard, storekeeper, and Jenkins, a British officer prisoner, Great Wolf delivered the following message: My father Onondyo, the Master of Life has inspired us to come to see you and to assure you of the attachment that we have for you and for all the French, whom we love and whom we shall always love. The British have made us die. They have begun war, but we shall finish it. We ask you, my father, to remember all your children, the Wolves, the Iroquois, and the Shawnees. Help them in that which they have just undertaken against the British. We do not want the British to come and live on our lands, nor on yours. We want you to remain with us, your children, always, and we implore you to assist us in making war on this nation whom we consider to be less than nothing and whom we scorn.

1763, November 8 OFFICIAL REPORT MADE BY PIERRE-JOSEPH NEYON DE VILLIERS, ON THE VISIT OF INDIAN MESSENGERS TO FORT CHARTRES. DS. 5pp. French. Richmond. Great Chief Wolf and two warriors, messengers from the Iroquois, Wolves, and Shawnees, left Fort Duquesne (now called Fort Pitt by the British) on the 2nd of October and arrived at Fort Chartres on the 2nd of November. They brought with them twenty British scalps. In the presence of MM. Bobe [Jean-Baptiste-Claude Bobe Desclosseaux], commissioner, [Etienne Marafret] Laysard, storekeeper, and Jenkins, a British officer prisoner, Great Wolf delivered the following message: My father Onondyo, the Master of Life has inspired us to come to see you and to assure you of the attachment that we have for you and for all the French, whom we love and whom we shall always love. The British have made us die. They have begun war, but we shall finish it. We ask you, my father, to remember all your children, the Wolves, the Iroquois, and the Shawnees. Help them in that which they have just undertaken against the British. We do not want the British to come and live on our lands, nor on yours. We want you to remain with us, your children, always, and we implore you to assist us in making war on this nation whom we consider to be less than nothing and whom we scorn.